314 Scientific Intelligence. 



Professor Max Verworn, the distinguished physiologist, died 

 at Bonn on November 23, at the age of fifty-eight years. He 

 was Silliman lecturer at Yale University in 1911 and his lectures 

 on the physiological relations of irritability were of special value ; 

 these were later published in book form. 



Dr. Giacomo Luigi Cimician, professor of chemistry -in the 

 University of Bologna, died on January 2. His work was of 

 great value and chiefly in organic chemistry. 



Dr. Boynton Wells McFarland, assistant professor of Chem- 

 istry in Yale University, died in New Haven on March 13. 



Dr. Charles W. Waidner, chief physicist of the Bureau of 

 Standards, died in Washington on March 11. 





